NYT: Lawrence Lader, Champion of Abortion Rights, Is Dead at 86

[DeepModem Mom]

Lawrence Lader, Champion of Abortion Rights, Is Dead at 86
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Published: May 10, 2006

Lawrence Lader, a writer who so successfully marshaled his literary and political efforts in support of abortion rights that Betty Friedan, the feminist author, called him the father of the movement, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86.

The cause was colon cancer, his wife, Joan Summers Lader, said.

Mr. Lader was a major voice in the abortion debate for four decades, becoming a lightning rod for its critics as well as a beacon for its proponents. He wrote influential books and articles on the subject, organized ministers to refer women wanting abortions to doctors as well as referring 2,000 himself, helped found what was long known as the National Abortion Rights Action League and helped win New York State's repeal of abortion restrictions in 1970.

He unsuccessfully sued the Internal Revenue Service to end the Roman Catholic Church's tax exemptions on the ground that its opposition to abortion had veered into the political arena. He successfully challenged some restrictions on the drug RU-486, known as the morning-after pill, and arranged to manufacture a version of it in the United States....

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Mr. Lader stumbled into the abortion issue while working on a biography of Margaret Sanger, who around 1910 began her crusade for birth control because of her horror of abortions, then dangerous and illegal. By the 1950's, he said, antibiotics and new technology had made the procedure much safer, but it was still illegal and seldom discussed....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/10/nyregion/10lader.html

[flamingyouth]

1. RIP

:patriot:

[ceile]

2. Thank you for your service, Mr. Lader

RIPO8) :patriot:

[wicket]

4. Amen

RIP

[MountainLaurel]

3. He was so right

"Basically, the opposition really hates women, which I think comes out of a woman's sexuality," he said in an interview with The Body Politic magazine in 1991. "They fear women's independence — women no longer chained to the home waiting for the man with a rose in their teeth."

[DaveColorado]

5. Fuck the NYT

This is utter bullshit:


"He successfully challenged some restrictions on the drug RU-486, known as the morning-after pill,"


RU-486 is an abortion pill that chemically induces abortions.

The morning after pill is a high dose of hormonal contraceptive used to prvent pregnancy.

You've got to love the librul media.